By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – A devastating accident occurred on the Ijebu-Ode-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, Nigeria, claiming 10 lives and injuring three others. The incident happened on Friday at approximately 8:30 p.m. near Ome Bridge in the Ijebu North Local Government Area. According to Babatunde Akinbiyi, spokesperson for...
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By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – A devastating road crash on the Ome Bridge inbound Awa, Ijebu Ode, Obada Expressway, in Ogun State, has claimed the lives of 10 people, while three others sustained injuries. The accident involved a Mitsubishi bus with registration number EJ829 LSR. According to the Ogun...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 18 suspected internet fraudsters in Ogun State. The commission in a post via its X handle, said the suspects were arrested in Prime Garden Hotel, situated in Atun-iju,...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – A devastating thunderstorm swept through Osara community in Ogun State’s Police Command on Saturday, killing 32 cows. It was learnt that the incident occurred at about 4:40 p.m. when a heavy rainstorm hit the area, bringing with it intense lightning that struck the unsuspecting...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is taking significant steps to tackle smuggling activities along its borders. Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, revealed that the NCS has developed a technology to manage transporting between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, which is currently being piloted at...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has donated N1 million each to the families of 22 athletes and officials from Kano State who died in a road accident while returning from the National Sports Festival, held in Abeokuta. A delegation from Ogun State, led by Deputy Governor Noimot Salako-Oyedele, delivered...
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf has declared Monday as a public holiday to honour the memory of the 22 Kano athletes and officials who died in a road accident while returning from the National Sports Festival. A statement issued in Kano on Sunday by the Governor’s spokesperson, Mr Sanusi...
Team Delta on Thursday emerged overall winner of the 22nd National Sports Festival (NSF) in Ogun, securing 122 gold, 96 silver and 105 bronze medals. This gave Delta a total of 323 medals, placing them at the top of the final medals table at the conclusion of the festival....
The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) says three people have died while six others were injured in an accident which involved five vehicles on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Adekunle Ajibade, the South-West Area Commander of TRACE, who confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Nigeria’s premier gas distribution company, Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), last week engaged more than 100 gas off takers in the Agbara Ota industrial zone in Ogun State on ways of consolidating the gains from the supply of gas to the businesses. Set up in 1998 as a fully Shell-owned...
Team Bayelsa has maintained its lead on the medals table at the ongoing National Sports Festival (NSF) in Ogun. Bayelsa garnered 30 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze medals five days into the festival to maintain a comfortable lead. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that the...
Team Bayelsa has maintained its lead on the medals table of the ongoing National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abeokuta, Ogun. Bayelsa amassed 19 gold, 10 silver and eight bronze medals four days into the festival. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the official medals table released by the...
Police Command in Oyo State has arrested one of its personnel who accidentally shot dead a 14-year-old secondary school student, Kehinde Alade, in Ibadan on Tuesday. The command’s spokesperson, CSP Adewale Osifeso, disclosed this in a statement issued in Ibadan on Tuesday. He said the officer responsible for the...
Containerised shops were destroyed on Tuesday following an explosion involving a diesel-laden tanker behind the Alake Sports Complex in Ijeja, Abeokuta. The explosion occurred just behind the fence separating the Sports Complex from the Ijeja community, triggering panic among nearby residents. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...
A stray bullet fired by a policeman has allegedly killed a teenage boy on his way to school in Ibadan on Tuesday. An eyewitness account stated that the incident occurred at the Ibadan airport junction, along Old Ife Road. According to a commercial motorcyclist, Dauda Oseni, the deceased, with...
President Bola Tinubu has said that sports remained a tool for national integration and cohesion. He stated at the opening of the 22nd National Sports Festival, tagged ‘Gateway Games’ 2024 on Sunday in Abeokuta. Tinubu who was represented by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, said that for decades, sports...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has promised a cash reward of N2.5 million for any state athletes who wins gold medal at the 22nd National Sports Festival (NSF). Abiodun made the promise when he visited the athletes’ camp at Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area of the state...
Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has charged the state contingent to the 22nd National Sports Festival in Ogun to bring home gold medals and make Edo proud. Okpebholo gave the charge on Friday while addressing the 774-member team shortly before they departed Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium to Abeokuta for the...
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun has promised to focus on strengthening its presence in all the local government areas in the state. The State PDP Youth Leader, Mr Sunkanmi Oyejide, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...